• Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    32 minutes ago

    Eh… Not really. Dontiz’ orders to the Uboat arm were that the destruction of enemy vessels was not to be hampered by life saving activities. However, there were Kriegsmarine officers that did go out of their way to help crews of merchant vessels they had sunk. Captain Hans Langsdorff of the Graf Spee was one such officer, although he was a skimmer.

  • TyrionBean@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    18
    ·
    5 hours ago

    Well, it’s not Nazi Germany…but…the USA is definitely headed there. Then again, when the Nazis stopped you in the street, they would at least ask for your papers first. Apparently ICE and BP think that’s too woke or something.

    • just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      13 minutes ago

      Nazi germany was against white people cuz european jews were/are practically white. That’s why they needed the badges to fully distinguish.

      Today, they just look at the skin color or if they are wearing a hijab or other cues to decide who is an “immigrant” or not

  • Aeri@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    86
    ·
    8 hours ago

    I miss when “worse than Hitler” was something patently untrue that people said when they were being overly dramatic.

    • E_coli42@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      2 hours ago

      How many killed, tortured, raped, colonized, displaced, etc. by the British and French? British and French during WW2 were arguably much worse than Germany. History just likes to put a lense on Hitler and not Churchill because Churchill oppressed black and brown people whereas Hitler oppressed white people, which is a big no-no in society.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    39
    ·
    edit-2
    7 hours ago

    Reminds me of the old (apocryphal) story of Stalin, FDR, and Churchill debating what to do with the Nazi officers’ corps after their defeat.

    "The German General Staff, [Stalin] said, must be liquidated. The whole force of Hitler’s mighty armies depended upon about 50,000 officers and technicians. If these were rounded up and shot at the end of the war, German military strength would be extirpated.” When Churchill angrily declared he would be no party to such mass retribution, the President quipped that he would act as mediator, and suggested the compromise of shooting only 49,000. In heat, Churchill left the room. Stalin himself fetched him back, assuring him it was all a jest.

    The tendency to treat enemy soldiers as honorable adversaries while foreign civilians are resources to be exploited or speed bumps to be flattened is extremely fascist.

    What separates Hitler and Hegseth isn’t their army’s treatment of survivors of a military operation, but their view of their targets as military or civilian. Hegseth knows he’s targeting civilians and treats them just like a German military commander would treat other civilians.

    • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      edit-2
      4 hours ago

      Wonder if Churchill would be equally upset if instead of nazis they were the people of one of the races he openly considered inferior, including but not limited to: Black people, arabs, indians, the chinese, the irish and indigenous people.

  • huf [he/him]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    7 hours ago

    yeah, but keep in mind that this is only true because the nazis werent sinking soviet submarines in ww2.